Electronic personalized clothing makeover assistant

Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for customizing the display of clothing for sale by an enterprise over the Internet so as to view it as it would appear on the body of a particular person specified by a user is provided. In one embodiment, a digitized image of a person selected by a user is received by a server via the Internet. Dimension and scaling information regarding the image of the person are also received from the user. The enterprise's server then receives a selection of a clothing item that the user would like to see the image of the person wearing. The server scales the image of either the image of the person, the image of clothing item selected by the user, or both so that the image of the clothing item will fit the image of the person appropriately. An image of the person wearing the clothing item selected by the user is then created and presented to the user.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Technical Field [0002] The present invention relates to computer software and, more particularly to software for manipulating images of people and clothing to aid in selection of clothing. [0003] 2. Description of Related Art [0004] The “Internet” is a worldwide network of computers. Today, the Internet is made up of more than 65 million computers in more than 100 countries covering commercial, academic and government endeavors. Originally developed for the U.S. military, the Internet became widely used for academic and commercial research. Users had access to unpublished data and journals on a huge variety of subjects. Today, the Internet has become commercialized into a worldwide information highway, providing information on every subject known to humankind. [0005] The Internet's surge in growth in the latter half of the 1990s was twofold. As the major online services (AOL, CompuServe, etc.) connected to the Internet for e-mail exchange, the I...

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Benefits of technology

"The present invention is a method, system, and computer program product for customizing the display of clothing for sale on the internet. It allows users to view the clothing on a specific person or for a specific body type. The system receives a digitized image of a person selected by a user and information about their dimensions and scaling. The user then selects a clothing item they would like to see the person wearing. The server then scales the image of either the person or the clothing item to fit the image of the person appropriately. The result is an image of the person wearing the selected clothing item. This technology makes it easier for users to see how the clothing looks on a specific person."

Problems solved by technology

Secondly, with the advent of graphics-based Web browsers such as Mosaic and Netscape Navigator, and soon after, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the World Wide Web took off.

However, one disadvantage of shopping over the Internet is the inability to accurately determine whether a particular style and / or color of clothing is flattering and appealing when worn by the particular individual.

Thus, people may often end up with clothing that appears good when viewed on the Internet, but is not flattering on the person when the clothing actually arrives.

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